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N653JS

Diamond Aircraft DA 40

Valid Electric airplaneVirginia

N653JS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tidewater Flying Club INC, a corporation in Newport News, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria

Aircraft

Maker
Diamond Aircraft (Austria)
FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
Model
DA 40
Serial number
40.323
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A898B8 (octal 52114270)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 2, 2014
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00070629

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tidewater Flying Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
900 Bland Blvd Ste S
Newport News, VA 23602-4347

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data